AFOSR (Grant No. FA9550-07-1-0468);AURA Sub-Award C10569A of NSO’s Cooperative Agreement AST 0132798, and NSF (Grant No. ATM-0754378);CCW is supported by NASA grant NNX07AH85G, FENG is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 40536029, 40621003, 40374056 and 40574058)
In recent years remarkable advances have been made in the development of phys-ics based models of various parts of the solar-terrestrial system (see JASTP special issues, October, November 2004; February 2007). In thi...